The Third Sword Spirit

Chapter 7 - Strong Bond

It's 6 in the morning and someone knocks on my door. I open the door enough so that I can see who is there. Link is here again. I get out of my room and close the door.

"What do you want now? I ask."

"What are you hiding?"

"Nothing!"

"Yes you are hiding something from me."

"I'm not hiding anything."

"I know when you lie."

"I doubt that, how would you know? You barely even know me."

He comes closer to me, holds my waist and takes me away from the door. When I come back in front of him to stop him from going in, he pushes me softly behind him. I keep pulling his arms and he gets my hands off him.

"Let go!"

"No!, I scream."

He seems to get angrier every time I try to stop him. Without noticing what he is doing, he slaps me in the face. He doesn't seem to realise what he just did. I get really upset over this act, that I just start to punch him in the back. When he can't handle it anymore, he catches my arms and throws me harshly to the wall. My head hits the wall hardly and I see Link kneeling down and saying that he is sorry before I faint.

When I wake up, it's the middle of the night and Link is next to me, sleeping on a chair. I don't want to face him yet. I get up the bed slowly so that he doesn't wake up and leave the infirmary. I ran back to my room, worried about Ghirahim. When I arrive in front of my room's door, I take a deep breath and open it.

I walk straight into my room. I don't see Ghirahim in my bed anymore and the window is open. Did he leave?

"Hello, Milady."

I jumped of surprise and looked behind me. Ghirahim is sitting on a chair, his legs crossed, looking at me with his deep eyes and his evil grin.

"You scared me, I thought you left."

"Oh. Were you worried about me?" he laughs.

"Well, yes, you did get beat up by Link and got shot by a guardian."

"I only got beat up by this ridiculous boy because a guardian damaged my beautiful self."

"Why did you save me from the guardian?"

"Why would you ask that? Did you want to die there?"

"No but you had no reason to save me, you also got hurt because of me."

"I wasn't going to let my little Lory die when I barely got to know her."

"L-Lory?"

"Why, yes."

A long silence starts, the light of the moon enlightens the room, the stars shine brightly, while Ghirahim and I look deeply in each other's eyes.

"Why did you leave?, I ask."

"Leave what?"

"Why did you leave Hylia's side?"

"I had no interest in taking care of those ridiculous humans, they keep battling against each other for no reason and we have to fix everything."

"By "we", you mean Fi and you, right?"

"Well yes."

"Why does she hate you so much?"

"She does?"

"Every time I talk about you in front of her, she seems to be somewhere else. She also tells me to stay away from you, all the time."